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HEC’s Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) reached its 2019 climax when over 50 mainly SASI students, accompanied by a staff member and an academic, spent 10 days in the East African nation of Rwanda. The historic visit coincided with the nation’s 25th annual commemoration of the 1994 genocide.
Jeremy Ghez has been chosen as one of the 40 top under-40s professors in 2019 by Poets & Quants.
HEC Crisis Challenge coordinated the second edition of its student-led crisis simulation on April 11-12 in a high-pressure exercise involving five business schools. 85 students, divided into 14 teams, grappled with three crisis scenarios with four going through to a media-centered final.
HEC Paris and its International Executive MBA degree earned a perfect score for career outcomes in the 2019 QS ranking aiming to identify business schools doing most to enhance the employability of their graduates. The worldwide classification, released April 16, saw HEC rise eight places up the table to joint fifth, pinpointing its long-lasting commitment to its Alumni’s capacity to thrive in the C-Suite.
by Thomas Roulet, HEC PhD 2014, senior lecturer at University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and ranked 5th in the Thinklist of most influencing academics in social media published by BathCBOS.
For the third time since TED was conceived in 1984, HEC Paris students organized a TEDx event, choosing “Crawl, Walk, Talk” as the 2019 theme. The April 5 gathering was played out in front of a privileged crowd which witnessed 14 students, academics and entrepreneurs share personal journeys from “its nascent stages to one of finality”.
Will AI and Robotics take your job or do they make you more skilled and generate alternate types of employment? The first panel of the ‘AI, Robotics & Work’ Conference at HEC Paris on March 12, intended to answer these questions.
The second panel discussion moderated by Sangseok You, HEC Paris professor was given by 3 business practitioners, Shirine Maher, Co-founder @EdzoAi; Guillaume Lerouge, Director @LaJavaness, Gautier Virepinte, Senior Manager@ KPMG on the business opportunities of AI application and on-going practice with corporations.
Do we have the tools to ensure that AI is working as it was meant to and, if not, fix it? The third panel of the ‘AI, Robotics & Work’ Conference at HEC Paris on March 12, ‘Organizational structure & Governance’, intended to answer these organizational stakes.
By Paul-Marie Carfantan
HEC’s Master degree in Media, Art and Creation (MAC) reached its 2019 climax in March with a weeklong induction into the cultural riches of Los Angeles. 41 students took the Californian capital by storm in a study trip featuring 110 meetings with the cultural sector’s movers-and-shakers. On April 1, they shared their conclusions with MAC Alumni and academics.
